CONSIDER HIM 1 Heb. i.-ii. II A HEART OF FAITH 8 Heb. iii. III UNTO PERFECTION 14 Heb. iv.-vi. IV OUR GREAT MELCHIZEDEK 23 Heb. vii. V THE BETTER COVENANT 32 Heb. viii. VI SANCTUARY AND SACRIFICE 42 Heb. ix. VII FULL, PERFECT, AND SUFFICIENT 51 Heb. x. VIII FAITH AND ITS POWER 61 Heb. xi. (I.). IX FAITH AND ITS ANNALS 71 Heb. xi. (II.). X FOLLOWERS OF THEM 80 Heb. xii. 1-14. XI SINAI AND SION 90 Heb. xii. 14-28. XII APPEALS AND INSTRUCTIONS 100 Heb. xiii. 1-14. XIII LAST WORDS 110 Heb. xiii. 15-25. MESSAGES FROM THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS CHAPTER I CONSIDER HIM HEB. i.-ii. Let us open the Epistle to the Hebrews, with an aim simple and altogether practical for heart and for life. Let us take it just as it stands, and somewhat as a whole. We will not discuss its authorship, interesting and extensive as that problem is. We will not attempt, within the compass of a few short chapters, to expound continuously its wonderful text. Rather, we will gather up from it some of its large and conspicuous spiritual messages, taken as messages of the Word of God "which liveth and abideth for ever." No part of Holy Scripture is ever really out of date. But it is true meanwhile that, as for persons so for periods, there are Scripture books and Scripture truths which are more than ordinarily timely. It is not that others are therefore untimely, nor that only one class of book or one aspect of truth can be eminently timely at one time. But it seems evident that the foreseeing Architect of the Bible has so adjusted the parts of His wonderful vehicle of revelation and blessing that special fitnesses continually emerge between our varying times and seasons on the one hand and the multifold Word on the other.